"Peasants tell tales," one prominent cultural historian tells us
(Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it
is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings
into their histories and ethnographies. Challenging the dominant
culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall
Sahlins among others, this book presents a critical rethinking of
the philosophical anthropologies found in specific histories and
ethnographies and thereby bridges the current gap between
approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture. In
challenging the methodology and theoretical frameworks currently
used by social scientists interested in aspects of popular culture,
the author suggests a common discursive ground can be found in an
historical anthropology that recognizes how myths, fairytales and
histories speak to a universal need for imagining oneself in
different timescapes and for linking one's local world with a
"known" larger world.
Hermann Rebel was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and educated
at the University of Toronto and at UC Berkeley. He has taught at
York University in Toronto, the University of Iowa, and the
University of Arizona and has published Peasant Classes (Princeton,
1983) as well as articles on Austrian and German agrarian and
cultural history.
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